A global Xbox Series X|S outage unexpectedly blocked some disc-based games, exposing a flaw in Microsoft’s offline entitlement system. Microsoft called the failure unacceptable and said it is developing a fix to ensure physical games remain accessible during future service disruptions.
… The biggest change the company is making is that its own engineers will now be responsible for operating and maintaining the licensing service it uses and will be “actively hardening the services and infrastructure for future updates.” A software update that integrates some of these fixes has alrea… …
… That bug has now, says Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet, been fixed, and further measures are being introduced to try to prevent a repeat of the situation. “An underlying service required for XBOX Home Console sharing and Game Pass purchased content, as well as some PC scenarios, experienced an outage wher… …
Microsoft Vows To Fix Xbox Licensing Glitch After 16-Hour Gaming Outage by Chris Harper — Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 02:10 PM EDT When we covered the planned PlayStation service blackout , I pointed out that both the Xbox and PlayStation platforms had seen major downtime in their online services tha… …
… Van Vliet had previously explained that the outage was caused by the failure of an external licensing service used by Xbox and some publishers. …
… Microsoft is working on a fix for the outage, with the Xbox Status website stating that Microsoft has identified the cause but has not provided a timeline for the fix. …
… As outages continue to disrupt premium services, users online are already pointing out the problem with the all-digital future that these major companies are promising to bring about. Microsoft Xbox Xbox services Xbox live Gaming Outage Report a problem with this article
… While Van Vliet doesn't mention it in his statement, it took around 12 hours for this service outage to be resolved for all Xbox users around the globe . The Xbox CTO's official statement concludes with what the company is doing now in the aftermath of the service outage. …
… The team has worked hard throughout the day to fix the issue, and we've restored service as of 2:30 PM PDT. …
… The team has worked hard throughout the day to fix the issue, and we've restored service as of 2:30 PM PDT. …
